Device for supporting a display-case on a cash-register



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DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING A DiSP'LA! CASE ON A CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION HLEE MAY 10, 1920.

1 ,366 413, Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

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A TTORNE Y5 THOMAS S. TAYLOR, OF BAKER, QREGON.

DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING A DISPLAY-CASE ON A GASH REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Application filed Ma 10, 1920. Serial No. seems.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS S. TAYLOR,citizen of the United States, residing at Baker, in the county of Bakerand State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Devices for Supporting Display Cases on Cash Registers, oi. which thefollowing is a specification.

The' object of this invention is to provide a device for supporting adisplay-case from the top of a cash-register, and which will be simplein construction and readily installed in operative position.

A further object is to provide such a device which may be installed onthe cashregister without marring or otherwise injuring the same, andwhich requlres no change therein.

With these objects in view, the invention resides, broadly stated, insupporting members of a peculiar shape adapting them to be positionedupon the top of a cash-regis ter so as to hold a display-case.

The accompanying drawing clearly dis- F closes an exemplary embodimentcapable of carrying out the underlying principles of the invention. Likereference characters designate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views, which latter may be briefly described as follows:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of a cash-register,showing the application of my invention thereto, and showing my devicesupporting a show-case;

Fig. 2 is-a view in rear elevation of one of the two complementalsupporting-devices;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of. one of said devices; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view, on the line d-4, Fig. 2, looking in thedirection of the arrows.

Referring, now, in detail, to the drawing:

Each of my two supporting devices is, preferably, a metallic casting,and, as shown in Fig. 1, said complemental supporting devices areadapted to seat upon the ends of the cash-register 1, at the topthereof.

Each supporting member has a base 2, having the bent terminals 7, 7 andcarrying, laterally, pairs of integral, upwardly-projecting angles 3 and13, the angles of each pair being parallel.

Depending from the base 2 is a flange 5,

having bent terminals 6, G. The flange is apertured, at 10, 10, for thereception of screws 11, 11, which secure the supporting device to theside member of the cash register.

The terminals '7, 7 are connected by a horizontal web 8, having,preferably, a curved outer longitudinal edge 9. The web is, in effect, ahorizontal flange of the base 2.

In use, one of said supporting devices is secured upon each end of thecash re 'ister side-member 4, at the top thereof, and firmly secured inposition by the screws 11, 11. Two rectangular glass plates or panels12, 12, forming the two sides or" the display case, are then slippedvertically between two parallel flanges of each pair of angles 3, 13.Two glass plates 1d, 14, constituting the ends of the display-case, arethen slipped vertically into position between the other two parallelflanges of each pair of said angles, the said glass plates fittingsnugly between said angle-flanges, which thus support the plates firmlyin position against accidental displacement. A filth glass panel,constituting the bottom of the display-case, may be disposedhorizontally upon the webs 8, 8 of the supporting bases 2, i

In compliance with the Revised Statutes of the United States pertainingto Letters Patent for mechanical inventions, I have described with greatparticularity a con crete or physical embodiment of the underlyingprinciples ot my invention; it being understood that changes may be madein the structure disclosed, within the terms of the appended claims,without departing from the spirit of the invention, or necessarilysacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United. States is:

1. Means for supporting a displaycase upon a cash-register, comprisingtwin sup porting bodies each comprising a base at tachable to the topoi. a cash register, and having spaced, parallel, upward-projectingmembers frictionally engageable with glass panels, constituting thesides and ends of the displaycase, to support the same in a verticalposition, and a flange depending from said base and apertured for therepanels, constituting the sides and ends of the display-case, tosupport the same in a vertical position, said base having a horizontalflange. to support a horizontally disposed glass panel, constituting thebottom of a glass display-case.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

THOMAS S. TAYLOR.

